Connor Mortell

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The Biggest Piece That Critics of the “Woke Right” Miss

01/18/2025 Mises Wire Connor Mortell

The author James Lindsay has gotten mileage by introducing the phrase “Woke Right” to describe certain ideological elements associated with the MAGA movement. The “woke” concepts coming from the left, however, are not the same, structurally speaking, as what conservatives are saying.

In Defense of GK Chesterton’s Manalive

02/29/2024 Mises Wire Connor Mortell

While G.K. Chesterton and libertarian thinking were not always a match, Chesterton did make some libertarian contributions in his novel Manalive. Connor Mortell dives into that work.

The Right Is Wrong to Pursue Term Limits

02/21/2024 Mises Wire Connor Mortell

While term limits is a near-article of faith by many on the right, the concept is flawed at its inception and the results are worse than anticipated.

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The Right Is Wrong to Pursue Term Limits

03/03/2024 Connor Mortell

While term limits is a near-article of faith by many on the right, the concept is flawed at its inception and the results are worse than anticipated.

Can the American Government Wage a Just War?

11/08/2023 Connor Mortell

Murray Rothbard asked this question and concluded that the current American regime, if the wisdom of Aquinas’ words is taken seriously, cannot wage a just war.

What Mises Really Thought about Fascism

09/12/2023 Connor Mortell

When Mises wrote that the fascists had "saved European civilization," he could have been describing Francisco Franco of Spain, who kept Spain from becoming a communist dictatorship.

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